05/07/2026
📢 A PSA 📢
Multiple things can be true at the same time…
1. Local fire departments are not ‘taking bribes’ and Township Supervisors are not personally profiting from this.
2. Our local fire departments, emergency services, schools, municipalities & the infrastructure they support, are all deeply underfunded. This isn’t unique to Duncannon, Watts Township, or any rural community like ours.
3. Large-scale developers like MRP Industrial know this.
That’s why Community Benefit Agreements (CBAs), infrastructure funding promises, emergency support funding, tax projections, & similar incentives are often part of these projects - before anything is even publicly announced.
It’s part of how massive industrial developments position themselves w/in small rural communities just like ours.
That does not make local fire departments or community organizations ‘the enemy’.
But communities are still allowed to - and should - ask whether projects w. major long-term infrastructure and environmental impacts should also be tied to financial promises that place our local leaders, emergency services, and municipalities in impossibly difficult positions both socially and politically.
That conversation is part of understanding the full picture & the long-term implications for Watts Twp & Duncannon.
The December ‘25 letter from MRP Industrial to Watts Twp Supervisors outlining proposed benefits connected directly to requested height approvals was previously shared here on our page. Scroll down the page just a few posts if you missed it & want a recap.
Please remember to stay focused on who it was that created this situation in the first place.
Our neighbors & community members are not the enemy.
